Gentlemen of the Road

Question 0

Poor, common people who don’t have access to power

Answer 0

Have-nots

Question 1

People with money and access to power

Answer 1

Haves

Question 2

Big land

Answer 2

Vast estate

Question 3

The health of people

Answer 3

Welfare

Question 4

A road where you have to pay money to ride the road

Answer 4

Toll road

Question 5

A ghetto or poor, overpopulated area

Answer 5

Slum

Question 6

A servant who attends the door, waits on a table, etc; today’s bellhops

Answer 6

Footman

Question 7

People who cut meat and sell cheese from cows

Answer 7

Butcher

Question 8

Someone from high society

Answer 8

Aristocrats

Question 9

Filled with meaning

Answer 9

Sentimental

Question 10

A person effected by a crime

Answer 10

Victim

Question 11

A loop with a running knot; a snare, lasso

Answer 11

Noose

Question 12

Why are highwaymen considered gentlemen?

Answer 12

• they earned(stole) enough money to wear nice clothes
• they had great manners towards the people they stole from
• they had a great reputation as gentlemen

Question 13

A horse drawn(pulled) transportation

Answer 13

Carriage

Question 14

Horses

Answer 14

Steeds

Question 15

British money

Answer 15

Guineas

Question 16

To not do what someone tells you to; resist; appose

Answer 16

Defied

Question 17

Hatred

Answer 17

Scorn

Question 18

To place emphasis on emotion and imagination over conventional(common) understanding; glamorize

Answer 18

Romanticize

Question 19

What figure are highwaymen most similar to?

Answer 19

Robin Hood

Question 20

What percent of kids died before they were five because of being poor?

Answer 20

74%

Question 21

What did the poor do all day?

Answer 21

Worked

Question 22

What did the rich do all day?

Answer 22

They partied

Question 23

What did men and women put on the wigs that they wore?

Answer 23

Powder

Question 24

Who were the highwaymen most kind to?

Answer 24

Women

Question 25

What type of objects did highwaymen let women keep?

Answer 25

Items of sentimental value

Question 26

What two methods did highwaymen use to steel from people?

Answer 26

1. They took what they wanted from people and returned the rest 2. The begged people for money and jewels

Question 27

What did the people that the highwaymen made deals with do after they were stolen from?

Answer 27

They invited the highwaymen over for a drink

Question 28

What did the highway men do when the government sentenced to hang them?

Answer 28

They showed defiance by hanging themselves instead (they jumped off the platform instead of allowing it to be pulled out from under them

Question 29

What are some causes of the rise of the highwaymen?

Answer 29

- the government didn't care about the poor - toll roads were built - poor got poorer - rich got richer - living situation became awful - no work - 74% of kids were dying - rich wer parting while poor were working

Question 30

When does the article take place?

Answer 30

The seventeenth and eighteenth century

Question 31

What did the rich wear?

Answer 31

Silks and velvet

Question 32

Where did the rich live?

Answer 32

On vast estates

Question 33

Where did the rich spend the winter and spring?

Answer 33

They went to London t party/gamble

Question 34

Where did the rich spend their summers?

Answer 34

At seaside towns

Question 35

Did the government care more about the rich it the poor?

Answer 35

The rich

Question 36

What did the highwaymen(the poor) wear?

Answer 36

High heeled boots, fancy shirts, long elegant coats, brined hats with feathers

Question 37

Why did the highwaymen hand themselves?

Answer 37

Pride